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On behalf of John D. Smith Co., L.P.A. posted in Failure to Diagnose on Friday, March 20, 2015.

For some women, a breast cancer diagnosis is a great fear. When something looks suspicions a biopsy might be ordered. In the United States each year, approximately 1.6 million women have biopsies for breast cancer. Being told after a biopsy that they in fact do not have breast cancer is a great relief, that is until they are later diagnosed with a much more serious case. Unfortunately this happens all too frequently. A study lead by a professor of University of Washington School of Medicine recently looked into the matter.

In a previous post we wrote about the legal settlement reached by the family of the Liberian national who, despite receiving treatment sadly died from Ebola. While the mania surrounding Ebola in the United States has waned for most, for those who actually contracted and survived the infection their experience is still likely very fresh. It was recently announced that one of those individuals—a nurse who treated the first victim of the infection in the U.S.—filed a lawsuit against the parent company of the hospital where she worked.

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